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Old 02-10-2010
Server fails to allow connection
Hi,

I use bru to backup a variety of servers. One of our servers crashed and we had to do an emergency restore. It is working fine. The problem is the backup server refuses to backup the ftp server. The backup server ssh's into the servers and executed the bru command and instructs that that tape drive to be used, which happens to be on the backup server. When the command is run though, the backup servers says connection refused. I can ssh from the backup server to the ftp server and vice versa so I am completely stumped as to what the problem is.

One weird thing I have noticed: The backup servers keeps using the OLD FTP's server name in its logs! The DNS server has been changed to reflect the new name so I have no idea who this is happening but it might help as to figure out what is going on.

Any guidance?
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Old 02-10-2010
What exactly says 'connection refused'? What's connecting to what on what port? "connection refused" may either be a firewall problem, or that the server's really not listening on that port(check if anything's listening on the right port -- or the wrong port -- with netstat -an).

The FTP server may have its own settings for what name to log under. What FTP server is it?

For that matter, what system is this? What OS and architecture?
 
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